paging out or not?

[Dan Copeland_1]

Hello,

I would like to run a script on several servers to determine whether or not the servers are paging out to disk (are in swap trouble). What command would give me that information (text based)?

Thanks in advance

[Stefan Farrelly · Accepted solution]

use the vmstat command. The values under the pi and po columns are paging in and out. If these values are ever > 5 or more then you are paging. < 5 is ok, a normal system will have the odd 1 or 2 every once in a while.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Dan,

Use vmstat. A combination of vmstat and awk will give up just the data you need.

Man vmstat for details.

Regards, Clay